Advanced Blending: Knockout

[d-signer]

I love layer effects and especially Bevel and Emboss. It gives me a great possibilities for my work and I widely use it. Now I would like to share a technique which is very useful for some projects like 'build interface' for web pages.

Below shown picture with a shape with applied Bevel and Emboss layer effect. Some impovements were made: with Inner Shadow added imitation of reflect to the shape bottom.

To be continued...

[d-signer]

Well, if you want to create a small hole within the shape what do you do? A large Bevel effect would not allow it to do because a small hole means small bevel. So, you can use Knockout layer option there: Create a new Layer Set; within one then create a shape layer for small hole; apply *outer-down* Bevel and Emboss effect to the layer and set Knockout option to Shallow.

Note: you could apply not only B&E effect to the layer in knockout mode.

To be continued...

[kaprikorn]

d-signer, I'd like to learn more about blending style methods.
Maybe you could post a layered .psd file for us to examine your settings.

[d-signer]

Now we add another hole, a little larger one. As you can see there are also Inner Shadow and Pattern Overlay effects. I put a texts to the couple of new green windows.

Now we need to create a grooves around windows and in other places. Since I don't know English I call it "splits". I have created it with vector paths again. Below shown screen shot where you can observe stack of layers too.

Shape layer named 'splits' has two effects - Color Overlay: white, Linear Dodge (I like this blend mode!), and Drop Shadow: black, Darken (for CMYK it's important because mode 'Multiply' could cause excess of ink limit but Darken there more safe).

To be continued...

[d-signer]

kaprikorn, of course! at the end of the course. :)

Below what we have done.

[kaprikorn]

thank you }_

[d-signer]

Now you can see that green color of window isn't color like 'color overlay' because adjustment layer Hue/Saturation it makes and you can see through the windows. Try to learm more about layer effects by learn how to star was done. :)

[d-signer]

Promised psd. In CMYK!

[lasa]

I for one am blown away...
Thanks,
Lasa

[hydrospell]

Here's a little something about Knockout...:
http://www.ps-indepth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9

[d-signer]

To propagate using layer effects I have made up my fake portfolio: http://d-signer.narod.ru/portfolio.htm There just one picture (photo) was using - it's shore of Baikal lake. All the rest elements of design were done with shape layers and layer effects applied to them.